Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars
According to an email broadcast last week, The Chinati Foundation’s John Chamberlain Building needs roof repairs, the adobe and concrete walls need patching, and the Donald Judd-designed wooden doors and windows are rotting and need to be replaced. The Foundation is looking for year-end donations to help pay for the fixes, calling the former wool [...]
NPR Critiques Marfa “Chinazi” Phenomenon
Noting the “almost half dozen features” published in the NY Times about Marfa in the past three years, NPR‘s Neda Ulaby joins the scrum, outlining the tiny town’s makeover as an art mecca. Always even-handed, the piece contrasts the undeniable economic benefits to the local economy with muted naysaying from old-time townies and a “What [...]
Chinati Community Spirit Sprouts New Garden: 100 Works in Arugula Now on View
A new community garden is growing at the Chinati Foundation out in Marfa, full of organic vegetables, flowers, and natural dye plants. Chinati staff, community volunteers, and area students involved in the museum’s education programs grew and shared newly harvested radishes, herbs and arugula at a garden social in June. Future programs are sprouting: a [...]
Big Ol’ Horseshoe Getting Older, Chinati Seeking Donations to Restore Desert-Ravaged Oldenburg Monument
Since 1991, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Monument to the Last Horse has stood at the center of the Chinati collection, a bit of cornball figuration amid arid transcendentalism, a testament to both the history of Fort D.A. Russell and to the friendship between Donald Judd and the two artists. In 2012, Chinati will [...]
Chinati Awarded Federal Grant for Education Programs
A $120,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable the Chinati Foundation to enhance its education, public program, and outreach efforts to benefit Marfa and the surrounding communities. Thanks to the grant, events at Chinati will remain free, efforts at the once hermetic institution to reach a broader, younger [...]
Kellein heralded in Marfa
The Chinati foundation is celebrating its new director, Thomas Kellein on Tuesday, March 29. Refreshments will be served amid the John Chamberlain sculptures from 5:30-7pm. Kellein, a Judd scholar, begn work in January, succeeding Dr. Marianne Stockebrand, who retired last year. He will be featured on KRTS Marfa Public Radio’s “Talk at Ten” on Tuesday, [...]